User talk:Astropoet

Hello, Astropoet! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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September 2020

Your edit to Andrew Gemant Award has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 13:29, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

November 2024

Hi Astropoet! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Supernovae in fiction that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. TompaDompa (talk) 12:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your information. I had a different definition of minor edit, and am happy to be corrected. But it seems like you punished me for my misunderstanding by removing what I added. That seems harsh. How can I get that added sentence returned to the entry? Thanks for helping a newbie. Astropoet (talk) 01:44, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's not the reason I removed it. As I stated in my edit summary, examples should come from sources on the overarching topic—in this case, Supernovae in fiction. I see that Cakelot1 made much the same point about an addition of yours at Mars in fiction (we need secondary sources covering the topic on "Mars in Fiction" as a whole). The idea is that we do not include this kind of information simply because it is true, but rather in WP:PROPORTION to to its treatment in the body of reliable, published material on the subject. TompaDompa (talk) 07:40, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I happened to see what you wrote on your user page back in 2008 about adding information to the Wikipedia article about you. In case you are still wondering, there are guidelines at WP:Autobiography (in particular the section "If Wikipedia already has an article about you") and WP:Conflict of interest (in particular the section "How to disclose a COI"). TompaDompa (talk) 12:45, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]